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#1 Spyware Hacking of Egyptian Oppo Leader Prompts Updates from Apple
Sep 25 2023 // BOSTON (AP) — A leading Egyptian opposition politician was targeted with spyware after announcing a presidential bid, security researchers reported Friday. They said Egyptian authorities were likely behind the...
#2 Viewpoint: Solving Systemic Risk Is the Cyber Market’s Number One Priority
Sep 22 2023 // The Grange Pub in Cardiff is a typical modern British tavern. A short stroll from the city centre, it’s busy most days of the week. Weekends are packed, especially for Sunday lunch. In March 2020 all that stopped....
#3 MGM Resorts Recovers From Cyberattack, but Still No Digital Room Keys
Sep 21 2023 // MGM Resorts said on Wednesday its hotels and casinos were back to normal operations but it was working to resolve issues at its luxury Excalibur hotel and casino in Las Vegas, over a week after a cyberattack disrupted its...
#4 Bermuda Public Services Remain Disrupted After Cyber Attack
Sep 26 2023 // Bermuda is working to restore public services that were halted after last week’s “sophisticated and deliberate” cyberattack on its government systems, the island’s premier, E. David Burt, said on...
#5 US Federal Agencies Aim to Streamline ‘Hodgepodge’ of Cyber Reporting Rules
Sep 20 2023 // The Department of Homeland Security wants Congress and other federal agencies to help it streamline 52 different cyber reporting requirements to protect critical infrastructure and ease regulatory burdens on hacking...
#6 Caesars Entertainment Paid Millions to Hackers in Attack
Sep 14 2023 // Caesars Entertainment Inc. paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who broke into the company’s systems in recent weeks and threatened to release the company’s data, according to two people familiar with...
#7 Hackers Who Breached Casino Giants MGM, Caesars also Hit 3 Other Firms, Okta Says
Sep 19 2023 // Hackers who breached casino giants MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment in recent weeks also broke into the systems of three other companies in the manufacturing, retail, and technology space, a security...
#8 People Moves: Former CSAA CEO Troy Joins USAA; Big ‘I’ Installs McBride as New Chairman; Dagostino AXA XL’s Global Cyber CUO, Commercial
Sep 14 2023 // Former CSAA CEO Troy Joins USAA USAA has selected former CSAA president and chief executive Tom Troy as its chief transformation officer. He will start Sept. 25 and report to CEO Wayne Peacock. This newly created position...
#9 Viewpoint: IT Asset Disposition Is Growing Cyber Security Threat for All Organizations
Sep 19 2023 // Cyber risk headlines are dominated by rising ransomware activity and soaring global data breach costs. The increased ransomware activity, driven largely by threat actor financial motives, has indiscriminately affected all...
#10 Clorox’s First-Quarter Results Could See ‘Material Impact’ From Cyber Attack
Sep 18 2023 // Pine-Sol maker Clorox said on Monday its first-quarter results could see a “material impact” from a cybersecurity attack last month that damaged portions of its IT infrastructure and caused widescale disruption...
#11 Marsh McLennan Asks Court to Revisit Data Breach Ruling to Avoid Flood of Litigation
Sep 28 2023 // Marsh McLennan wants the Second Circuit appeals court to reconsider its August decision that overruled a district court and reinstated a former employee’s lawsuit against the company over a 2021 data breach. Marsh...
#12 MGM Hack Has Vegas Hotels Resorting to Cash Bars, Paper Vouchers
Sep 13 2023 // MGM Resorts International has been saying its hotels and casinos are “operational” following a cyberattack over the weekend that appeared to take down everything from payment systems to sportsbooks. Some of its...
#13 Two British Teens and Their Audacious Hack of Nvidia, Grand Theft Auto and Uber
Aug 25 2023 // At 9 p.m. on Sept. 22 last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other...
#14 The SEC’s New Disclosure Rules and Cyber, D&O Coverage
Sep 13 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in July adopted rules that require public companies to disclose certain information about their cyber risk. The rules, originally proposed in March...
#15 Insurer Mapfre Faces Class Actions Over Data Breach
Sep 13 2023 // Two proposed class actions have been filed in federal court in Massachusetts against Mapfre U.S.A. Corp. and its affiliate Commerce Insurance Co. over a recent data breach that one of the lawsuits contends may have exposed...
#16 MGM Hackers Waited for Days Before Issuing Their Ransom Demands
Oct 13 2023 // MGM Resorts International Chief Executive Officer Bill Hornbuckle chose not pay a ransom to hackers who broke into his casino chain’s computer system because they didn’t ask for money until well after the...
#17 Ransomware Criminals Are Dumping Kids’ Private Files Online After School Hacks
Jul 7 2023 // The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even...
#18 US, UK Say Russia Targeted Officials in Political Cyber Campaign
Dec 8 2023 // The US and UK have launched a coordinated effort to disrupt a longtime alleged Russian government hacking campaign aimed at what they say is an attempt to undermine democratic processes in both their countries. The UK...
#19 MOVEit Cyber Hack Spawned Around 600 Breaches but Isn’t Done Yet
Aug 8 2023 // A hydra-headed breach centered on a single American software maker has compromised data at about 600 organizations worldwide, according to cyber analyst tallies corroborated by Reuters. But more than two months after the...
#20 ICBC Flies Top Executives to US in Race to Contain Hack Fallout
Nov 14 2023 // Within days of a cyberattack at its US unit, members of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.’s management were on a plane. Officials from the world’s largest lender arrived in the US over the weekend...
